Funny Face

Just another doodle from work hours. I need to focus more on drawing I decided. But I do enjoy taking photos of my drawings and messing with the perspective.

Work Sketch 2012

Final Jaguar

Albino Jaguar

I have been hired to do a few illustrations - one being a jaguar. I am liking how it looks.

Model

I got tired of looking at that old post from almost a year ago. The other day, I drew from a model. It had been a long time and I was afraid that I wouldn't get anything out of the experience. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I did a couple of drawings that I liked. One will become a painting, but the other was more of a comic sketch. Here it is:

The model was a nice guy and he seemed to like my drawings. That helped. I am excited to do more art and excited to do my series of paintings I have planned on portraits of men.

Notebook sketches

I have to clean out my desk at work - because we are moving, not because I was fired... And I have a bunch of old notebooks I am pitching. But before I throw them away, I wanted to save the doodles and images I lovingly created during meetings and in times of boredom. These aren't great by and stretch, but at least I have stuff to post! Woohoo!

What is wrong with me?

I say that with love - because this makes me laugh.

I'm still weird.

Cute Puppy Dawg

I wanted to do something a little different today - Just some rough sketches, but I started drawing this dog that I really liked. I think he's cute and naughty and he knows it. I started with the horrid iPhone pic, then I brought it in photoshop where I decided to color him a little. Overall, it's a little lazy and dreamy, but I like him. His name is Paul.

Close-Up Aphid

Close Up start

It's late and I got just home from karaoke in Little Tokyo. While I am waiting for my pillow cases to dry in the drier (I hate forgetting to turn the drier on), I figured I should do some Aphid coloring. All done in Illustrator. Tomorrow, she will be refined more. Pillow cases are dry. Night.

Final Aphid Soccer Girl

Another Aphid

Just trying out some different sketches of the famous Aphid. A profile will be next in the queue, as well as finishing the color version. Maybe if I am feeling ultra inspired and ambitious, I may try to model her face in Maya. Probably not. Apologies again for the terrible iPhone pic.

Aphid in color

Loving this - though it took forever to set up my laptop with any image-creating software (since the hard drive failed and was re-built). I would have finished otherwise. I really am liking her in color. I decided she is a red-head at this age.

I still have the rest to complete, but I definitely will tomorrow night. Can't wait to remove the original drawing and give her a soccer field background! Fun!

Aphid the Teenage-girl

Aphid, Aphid, the teenage girl
Does her pony-tail in a swirl
Keeps a diary of her secret joy
And dreams of capturing a certain boy.

She still likes hearts,
skirts,
and pony-tails -
And now likes bows,
lip gloss,
and writing in her diary about BOYS.
Her bunny slippers are way too small now.

Aphid the Soccer Girl

Aphid, Aphid, the soccer girl
kicks the ball and makes it whirl
Runs so fast, her heart's a joy
Scores more goals than any boy.

She likes hearts,
skirts,
short, sassy haircuts,
horses (not unicorns),
bunny slippers,
and she LOVES soccer.

Fox Boy Number 14

This drawing was a gift for someone very special. I wasn't going to post it, but then the love was over. I hope he enjoys it as much as I do. He's a fox and he was my valentine (hence the 14). The stripey pants somehow, were perfect. Don't ask about the weird shoes.

Cute Demon Goat Boy

Just a doodle. Got goats on the brain. And ties. Apologies for the bad iPhone pic.

Updates soon...

Just wanted to let anyone who was interested know that there will be updates to this blog very soon. Sketches and the such and maybe I will break out the cintique again.

Linoleum Block Cut

Here is something else I finished today. A Stag.

When Bad Art Happens to Good People

Wow - it's been almost a year since my last post. I have been in a very un-inspired place. But I am trying to turn it around. With all my might.

I have a potential commission, some time off, and art supplies just sitting around my house. I've decided that it is best to post even the bad (some may argue that is what I *have* been doing) along with the good (when it gets good).

I recently heard that a painter must do 1000 bad paintings before he finds consistency and quality. Here is my start!

Here is my most recent work. It's the first painting I have done since October of 2008. It's pretty terrible. I mean, I like aspects of it, and it's not the most terrible thing I have ever done, but *wow*. It's more of a sketch that I decided to paint. Yeah...

Watercolor and pencil on wood.